1.10.17

Google Ordered to Shut Down Catalonia Referendum Mobile App

Google must take down a mobile phone app that tells Catalan voters
where they could vote for Sunday’s independence referendum, a judge has
ordered.
The decree was issued by Mercedes Armas of the Superior Court of
Justice of Catalonia, the magistrate who is leading the legal fight
against the referendum, the Europa Press news agency reported on Friday.
It concerns the “On Votar 1-Oct’’ app on Google Play, which Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont publicised on Twitter two days ago.
Spanish authorities have already taken down hundreds of
pro-referendum websites, in what is seen by secessionists as an attack
on freedom of expression.